The difference between Borrow and Return
When used as nouns, borrow means deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line, whereas return means the act of returning.
When used as verbs, borrow means to receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it, whereas return means to come or go back (to a place or person).
check bellow for the other definitions of Borrow and Return
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Borrow as a verb:
To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
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Borrow as a verb:
To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.
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Borrow as a verb:
To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
Examples:
"to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another"
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Borrow as a verb (linguistics):
To adopt a word from another language.
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Borrow as a verb (arithmetic):
In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
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Borrow as a verb (Upper Midwestern United States, Malaysia, proscribed):
To lend.
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Borrow as a verb (double, _, transitive):
To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
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Borrow as a verb:
To feign or counterfeit.
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Borrow as a noun (golf):
Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
Examples:
"This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it."
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Borrow as a noun (construction, civil engineering):
A borrow pit.
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Borrow as a noun (archaic):
A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
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Borrow as a noun (archaic):
A surety; someone standing bail.
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Return as a verb (intransitive):
To come or go back (to a place or person).
Examples:
"Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter."
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Return as a verb (intransitive):
To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
Examples:
"To return to my story..."
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Return as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To turn back, retreat.
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Return as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To turn (something) round.
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Return as a verb (transitive):
To place or put back something where it had been.
Examples:
"Please return your hands to your lap."
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Return as a verb (transitive):
To give something back to its original holder or owner.
Examples:
"You should return the library book within one month."
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Return as a verb (transitive):
To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
Examples:
"If the goods don't work, you can return them."
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Return as a verb:
To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
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Return as a verb (tennis):
To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
Examples:
"The player couldn't return the serve because it was so fast."
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Return as a verb (card games):
To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
Examples:
"If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump."
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Return as a verb (cricket):
To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
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Return as a verb (transitive):
To say in reply; to respond.
Examples:
"to return an answer;  to return thanks"
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Return as a verb (intransitive, computing):
To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
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Return as a verb (transitive, computing):
To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
Examples:
"This function returns the number of files in the directory."
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Return as a verb (transitive, dated):
To retort; to throw back.
Examples:
"to return the lie"
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Return as a verb (transitive):
To report, or bring back and make known.
Examples:
"to return the result of an election"
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Return as a verb (by extension, UK):
To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
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Return as a noun:
The act of returning.
Examples:
"I expect the house to be spotless upon my return."
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Return as a noun:
A return ticket.
Examples:
"Do you want a one-way or a return?"
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Return as a noun:
An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
Examples:
"Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before."
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Return as a noun:
An answer.
Examples:
"a return to one's question"
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Return as a noun:
An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
Examples:
"election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold"
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Return as a noun:
Gain or loss from an investment.
Examples:
"It yielded a return of 5%."
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Return as a noun (taxation, finance):
A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
Examples:
"Hand in your return by the end of the tax year."
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Return as a noun (computing):
A carriage return character.
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Return as a noun (computing):
The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
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Return as a noun (computing):
A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
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Return as a noun:
A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
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Return as a noun (American football):
Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
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Return as a noun (cricket):
A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
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Return as a noun (architecture):
The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
Examples:
"A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south."